Start-up's AI can read human emotions, even in large crowds

Record ID: 1987043

  • Title: Start-up's AI can read human emotions, even in large crowds
  • Date: 1st April 2025
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (MARCH 12, 2025) (Reuters) THE NEUROLOGYCA STAND AT AN AI EXHIBITION NEUROLOGYCA CEO, JUAN GRANA, TALKING TO PEOPLE AT THE EXHIBITION WOMAN LOOKING AT AI ASSESSING HER MOOD (SOUNDBITE) (English) JUAN GRANA, NEUROLOGYCA CEO SAYING: "We are an AI company. We spent many, many years training our models based on emotions and cognitive state for measuring the
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  • Keywords: AI Neurologyca aritificial intelligence detecting emotions human emotions humanising AI machine learning
  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
  • City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
  • Country: UK
  • Topics: Europe,Information Technologies / Computer Sciences,Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA006153325032025RP1
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  • Story Text:Spanish technology startup, Neurologyca, says its Kopernica artificial intelligence (AI) system can discern how you feel or detect a range of neurological conditions, and is even capable of doing this simultaneously for a crowd of people.
    Neurologyca hopes to advance emotional intelligence in AI, enhancing the way machines understand and interact with humans.
    "Our mission here is just to try to humanise AI, to make AI more human, make the AI understand much better the communication with the human being. From the empathetic point of view, from the emotional point of view, from the subjective point of view," Juan Grana, CEO of Neurologyca, told Reuters at the company's stand at an AI exhibition in London.
    Kopernica provides real-time emotional intelligence assessments of anyone on its video feed, aiming to enhance human-machine interactions.
    "Our technology uses a library of over 13 billion data points to map human emotion to video signals," Marc Fernandez, Neurologyca's US manager, told Reuters.
    "We can measure up to 92 different emotions," he added.
    "Those are used to determine everything from health and wellness applications to public safety to gaming."
    Kopernica uses multi-modal intelligence, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), voice recognition, body language interpretation, and personality data analysis, to enhance its computer vision and provide a holistic understanding of an individual's emotional state; and even vast crowds of people.
    "We can actually measure hundreds and even thousands of people at a time and get the general sentiment of a crowd," Fernandez said.
    He added that the technology can even help spot certain medical conditions way in advance.
    "When somebody is more likely to have a stroke or a brain hemorrhage, they start exhibiting unique emotional patterns that are imperceptible to the human eye, but that we can capture with our technology. And there are micro movements of your face, there are dilations of the pupil. And so we can predict weeks before it happens an event like that," Fernandez said.
    Neurologyca is working on a way to let other tech creators easily use their tools in their own applications, as part of their efforts to make their emotion-reading AI technology more widely available through Kopernica, which emphasizes privacy and ethical AI.
    "We never capture any personally identifying data. And all of this data is mapped to an arbitrary number that is constantly changing," added Fernandez.
    The system is already being put to use in a variety of areas like healthcare, education, security, and defense.
    (Production: Stuart McDill)
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